“My Purr-roo Kehl’s,” he growled out, feeling as punched in the face love drunk stupid tired as I was feeling. “Kehl my Purr-roo’s. All Kehl my Purr-roo’s,” he garbled out.
Fucking finally! I wanted to shout, but I didn’t. I was too far gone.
“Hold your Peru,” I muttered tiredly.
“Khel hold,” he growled out as we collapsed on the bed and he curled himself around me.
Snuggled up tight in his arms, tucked safely away in his hut, our bodies spent, our scents mingling, that half feral gremlin in my head was dancing a jig. This felt right, meant to be. As it should be.
If only Cy and Elm were here, I thought, it would be perfect.
Chapter 19
Kehl did in fact start selling his fabrics, odds and ends, to every single being in the market place. It didn’t matter if they were mated or not. It didn’t matter to him anymore. My male had been afraid some female would come along and tempt him and discover his secret, so he’d thought it best to avoid all single females and females looking to add to their family groupings entirely.
Poor guy didn’t stand a chance when he stumbled across Vurhg panicking over the gash on my head, to hear Kehl tell it. And my Kehl told EVERYONE, anyone who would listen to him or asked about his Purr-roo.
Dace’s Dancing Krampus book was so popular, and Rosa’s translated read was so well received, Dace and I had our hands full, Dace working on her next book while I took work translating books into Creeson.
The first time Daisy waved at Dace in greeting, Dace nearly fainted. I literally had to catch the woman, she was so shocked stupid.
Berkr seemed to be keeping his distance from Dace after that night back at Dorothy’s and Dace seemed just fine with that. I was so relieved I didn’t even think to ask why. Berkr wasall wrong for her. She needed someone that understood her. If Birch were here I’d have wondered if they might make a good match, his quiet patience to her jitter bug jumpiness when she got anxious, and my best friend got anxious a lot, they’d get along famously at the very least. Their taste in movies and music were pretty similar.
The dilemma of the moment wasn’t so much a dilemma but more so… I was pretty sure I was pregnant. Well, I thought I might be. It wasn’t like there were beastly pregnancy tests just lying around, but I’d missed my period and it has yet to come.
Kehl hasn’t said a peep about it, making me wonder if my period was absent from stress and thinking I was pregnant was just wishful thinking.
That, or he was freaking out and hiding it from me because he was worried our baby would be bad.
Cy would have been over the moon to hear he’d, as he referred to getting pregnant, put a baby in me.
I’d like to think Elm would be ecstatic at the idea I had a little one brewing but his track record with me was kinda panic and run.
Would Kehl panic and run if I was pregnant?
I was admittedly avoiding him at the moment.
“Hey.” Dace walked up, a fat basket full to brimming over her shoulder. It looked almost too heavy for her but Dace was a lot stronger than beings gave her credit for. “Mind if I join you?” she asked.
She’d been working on something, I wasn’t sure what, in her free time. I kinda felt like she was being a smidge secretive about it but that could be nothing— I was kinda all over the place right now and could just be projecting my growing insecurities. Honestly, she was never not busy and I’d given up trying to keep up. She always brought me into the know eventually anyway— I told myself to leave it be.
“Dorothy saw me headed this way. She saw you sneak off here earlier,” she was saying.
“I do not sneak off,” I muttered, though that was exactly what I’d been doing.
As if I hadn’t spoken, she went on, “She thought you might like a little something and sent me with this.”
My eyebrows shot up as my head lifted from where I’d been resting it on my bent knees. “That’s a lot more than a little something.”
“So… do you have something you wanna tell me?” she squeaked out.
“Do you?” I quipped, tit for tat
“No.” She shook her head, then smiled. “Not yet.” Nudging my shoulder, smile still in place, she looked like she wanted to tell me something but was waiting for me to ask.
“Spill it.” The look on her face made me laugh. “You look like you’re about to pop. Out with it.”
“Okay! So, I wasn’t going to tell you just yet but after Dorothy said Lukar heard from another beast that they thought they smelled a baby in you, I can’t possibly wait a minute longer!”
